Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law

The Centre facilitates and encourages academics within the University with an interest in medical law and bioethics to connect and engage in high quality interdisciplinary research. The unifying focus in our research is the legal and ethical dimensions of (bio)medicine.

The Centre brings together existing expertise in law, ethics, and philosophy with the aim of fostering collaborative research projects and of informing public debate, regulation and policy aspects of bioethics and medical law.

Academics affiliated to the Centre are currently engaged, solely or in collaboration, on projects exploring

End-of-life issues

Children, family and medicine

Law and global health

More broadly, the following themes are present within our work:

Beginning of life issues including reproductive (bio)technologies and genetic screening

Other contribution

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

The sale of human organs: Winter 2015 EditionWilkinson, S.D. 22/10/2015 In: Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Book

Chapter

The Donation of Human OrgansWilkinson, M., Wilkinson, S. 28/10/2011 In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA : The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Electronic ISBN: 1095-5054.Chapter

The Sale of Human OrgansWilkinson, S. 17/10/2011 In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, CA : The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Electronic ISBN: 1095-5054.Chapter